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Thursday 27 August 2026
Chart: Nvidia's hyperscale revenue doubled again — and that was the slower half of the business
Nvidia has made a point of it in three consecutive earnings decks: year-on-year growth has accelerated for four straight quarters, which the company calls unprecedented at its scale...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Nvidia's inventory build shifts upstream as memory costs bite
Nvidia closed its second fiscal quarter with US$31.6 billion of inventory, but the more consequential change is what that inventory now consists of. Work in process and raw materials...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Chart: Nvidia's segment split tells only half the AI demand story
Nvidia's data center business now splits almost evenly between hyperscalers and everyone else — US$48.7 billion against US$40.3 billion in the July quarter. The obvious reading...
Thursday 27 August 2026
AMD, Broadcom book most of Powertech's FOPLP capacity ahead of 2027 ramp
Powertech Technology (PTI) is preparing to move its fan-out panel-level packaging (FOPLP) technology into mass production by mid-2027. AMD and Broadcom are backing demand, and most...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Analysis: Smartwatch demand set to outpace broader hardware market in 2026
Smartwatch shipments are expected to continue rising faster than broader IT hardware in 2026, even as smartphones and notebook PCs see weaker growth due to higher memory costs. For...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Moody's lifts South Korea GDP forecast on hard-to-replace memory chips
Moody's has sharply raised its forecast for South Korea's 2026 economic growth to 3.5%, saying the country's semiconductor boom and export strength will last longer than expected and...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Anthropic prepares IPO pitch centered on a $30 trillion AI market
Anthropic is preparing for an initial public offering (IPO) and plans to tell investors its total addressable market exceeds US$30 trillion, according to people familiar with the matter...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Proton sales jump 39% as Malaysian automaker expands EV push
Proton said its vehicle sales rose 38.7% in the first seven months of 2026, as the Malaysian automaker highlighted new electrification and connected mobility technologies at GATE 2026...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Taiwan plans higher power growth to meet AI demand, officials say
Taiwan's government said it will raise electricity supply capacity as it responds to rising demand from AI and industry. The comments came on August 26 at the opening of the 2026 New...
Thursday 27 August 2026
AI data center boom lifts Weltrend fan-control chip sales 64%
Weltrend Semiconductor said first-half 2026 revenue rose 28% from a year earlier to a record for the period, with growth driven almost entirely by cooling demand tied to AI data center...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Nvidia reportedly shifts HBM4 mix toward 8-high as memory supply stays tight

Nvidia has reportedly asked Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix to increase the share of 8-high products...

Thursday 27 August 2026
AI glass substrate race shifts toward reliability and mass production
The competition to develop glass substrates for artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor packaging is intensifying, with Japanese and South Korean manufacturers pursuing different...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Nvidia's binding constraint moves from demand to cost, and it has now put a number on both
For the first time in this cycle, Nvidia has told investors where its gross margin will bottom out and how far short of demand its supply will fall - two admissions that shift the...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Nvidia caps its own growth at 70% because that is all the supply it can secure
Nvidia has guided a full year in advance for the first time, and the number it chose is not a demand forecast. Chief financial officer Colette Kress told the company's second-quarter...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
Record mid-2026 growth for WUS Printed Circuit and China's pivot to ultra-high-layer PCBs
The global hardware supply chain is undergoing a structural transformation, driven by an unprecedented surge in artificial intelligence infrastructure investment. "This shift has brought...